The World's 'Indie Games' Come Online and Flock to Busan

'Busan Indie Connect Festival 2020' Opens on the 19th for 7 Days of Grand Voyage
Game Environment Without Time and Space Constraints... Naver Cloud Platform Service
Indie Game Exhibition, Conference, Biz Matching, and Online Events with Rich Content

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Indie game developers and gamers from around the world are flocking to Busan online.

The Busan Metropolitan City, Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency, and Busan Indie Connect Festival Organizing Committee will hold the global cultural festival for indie developers and gamers, "Busan Indie Connect (BIC) Festival 2020-Untact Live," online for seven days from October 19 to 25.

Now in its 6th year, the "Busan Indie Connect Festival" is an event aimed at expanding the base of indie games and revitalizing the local indie game industry.

Due to COVID-19, Busan City decided to hold this year's event online. To allow visitors to safely enjoy 140 indie games from 16 countries anytime and anywhere, the event adopted the Naver Cloud Platform service, which boasts world-class stability and security technology.

A "BIC Conference" featuring domestic and international experts as speakers will be held, focusing on topics such as games and culture. Additionally, "BTB Business Matching" for developers participating in the exhibition and various events for visitors have been prepared for easy access.

This year's event maximizes the advantages of online hosting.

First, visitors can play the exhibited games and then share various opinions with the game developers through online bulletin boards. For the "BIC Conference," speakers of each session will directly join the online chat space to answer visitors' questions in real time and communicate.

Various online events will also be showcased. During the event period, there will be SNS events such as Instagram follow, friend invitation challenges, and AR filter shooting; the "I am a Game Reviewer" event, where participants shoot review videos of games they enjoyed and upload them to external URLs or YouTube; and the "Daily Mission" event, which holds different events every day during the festival.

Tickets for the "Busan Indie Connect Festival" are sold on the official website and Ticketlink. For the conference starting on October 20, registration completed by the 18th allows free admission.

Byun Sung-wan, Acting Mayor of Busan, said, "Although this event is held online, it fully captures the sense of being on-site offline, and we expect that everyone who loves games will be able to communicate together beyond spatial and temporal constraints."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.